I have been trying to get a usb dongle (K4505) working in Suse 11.2, without any success.
I can use a E220 dongle with the sim out of the K4505, but it will not get the speed of the K4505.
Everything I do, to try and get the cd part of the K4505 dongle to switch to the modem ends in failure.
I know the product id's of the two parts, but I cannot get it to switch.
Has anybody got some suggestions?

Also the dongle would not work with VMC in Windows, and I had to get help to set it up as a network connection. I don't know if that will have a bearing on the situation? Although I now think that it might?

Hi
I am on my laptop at present, which has Sabayon on, the K4505 dongle works without any problems on that setup.

So I must learn to count again, if I have added an extra nought.
I will probably have a go, over the weekend, to sort my desktop computer out?
Thanks for all your help PcNetSpec, it has been most appreciated.
As a matter of interest, is the number a generated one?
johnbywr

As long as you have usb_modeswitch 1.1.4 or later, follow these instructions:

1) Remove the edits you made to /etc/usb_modeswitch.conf

2) Make sure you have libusb installed on your system. In most distributions there is most likely a package named "libusb-dev" or "libusb-devel". Choose the legacy version (0.1.12) or the "compatible" package from libusb-1.0; last time I checked it had the version number 0.1.14.

I have got the usb_modswitch working, by putting in end message. However, although the lsusb shows the change. There is no /dev/ttyUSB* at all. So when I try wvdial, the error is no such file? I have to use wvdial as root, because if I try as me, I get the same error.

The message says to look in /proc/bus/usb/devices, but there is no devices. Also not in /dev/tty*. Have you any suggestions that may help?

I decided to give 11.2 best, and have installed suse 11.3. Which reconized the dongle and at least I am on the net. Although i do not like 11.3 as much as 11.2. I will live with it for now.
Thanks for all your help. At least I have something more.